Background
Carayon was born on November 16, 1916 in Toulouse, France, the eldest of three children. His father, a medical doctor, died in 1938.
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This loss, coupled with an illness of his own, prevented Carayon from pursuing his medical studies, and he instead studied natural history in Paris. In 1946 and 1947, Carayon undertook expeditions to West Africa and Cameroon, and attended international entomological congresses across Europe and North America, before being elected to the Permanent Committee on International Entomological Congresses in 1980.
Career
Carayon was Chairman of Entomology at the National Museum in Paris from 1975-1985. Carayon spent his entire career based in Paris. He was President of the Entomological Society of France from 1956, and Chairman of Entomology at the National Museum in Paris from 1975-1985 or 1986.
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Carayon unquestionably deserves a place, not only as one of the leaders in Hemipterology in this century, but as one of the leading figures in the entire history of the science." Carayon undertook pioneering research into traumatic insemination, and, in 1966, he was the first to suggest the spermalege structure in bedbugs as a female counter-adaptation.
